# Songs that would've been perfect in a show/movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062 "2019-04-05T01:35:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2019, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/1 "2019-04-05T01:35:15Z")
There are songs that would make a good fit in certain TV shows and movies, but for whatever reason were never used. Place your nominations here. I’ll start with this one for _Lost:_ [Find Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzzP29fw930)– Husker Du ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/2 "2019-04-10T07:58:15Z")
Obvious nomination: [This Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSCbk3BPxZI) - _Paul & Storm_ > [@](#): > > This song should be in a commercial > or a montage in a movie where a young couple starts to fall in love > or the credits of an independent film… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/3 "2019-04-10T08:19:05Z")
I’m honestly still irrationally annoyed that in 1993 the song by **Counting Crows** _[Mr. Jones](https://youtu.be/-oqAU5VxFWs)_ was a big hit, but it doesn’t appear anywhere in the soundtrack of 1993’s Richard Gere vehicle film _[Mr. Jones](https://youtu.be/cVKtVrNjNWs)_. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/4 "2019-04-10T11:30:58Z")
A lot of critics pointed out when _an American Werewolf in London_ was released that, among the many pop songs on its soundtrack, there was the conspicuous absence of Warren Zevon’s _Werewolves of London_. It came out in 1978, three years before the film. Many years ago, I was annoyed by the completely inappropriate background music that was pretty much thrown onto VHS editions of silent films. I was planning to put together my own track for the silent Lon Chaney version of _The Phantom of the Opera_. For one of the scenes with The Phantom playing the organ – ideally The Unmasking Scene, I’d planned to use Rick Wakeman’s _Judas Iscariot_ track from _Rick Wakeman’s Criminal Album_ – it _sounds_ like the work of a psychotic organist. I never did do it, and a couple of years later I saw that Wakeman himself had composed a new score for the silent _Phantom_. “Great,” I thought, “He’ll do it right. Maybe excerpt Judas Iscariot for the film.” Only he didn’t. The score was appalling, and had nothing that I liked about any of his work. I’d liked his previous film scores, but this one had nothing to recommend it. And no psychotic organist. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/5 "2019-04-10T13:20:07Z")
I’ve long thought that U2’s “[Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emFUtuotHL4)” needed to be dropped through a time warp so it could be part of the soundtrack for “Groundhog Day.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/6 "2019-04-10T13:50:00Z")
In _Annie_ (the musical), there’s a reprise of “Tomorrow” when Annie meets FDR. That should have been replaced with “Put On a Happy Face” from _Bye Bye Birdie_ Same songwriter and it fits better (and is a better song). ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/7 "2019-04-10T15:30:12Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > There are songs that would make a good fit in certain TV shows and movies, but for whatever reason were never used. Place your nominations here. > > I’ll start with this one for _Lost:_ > > [Find Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzzP29fw930)– Husker Du Sorry, but the one song they should have played on Lost is, of course: [Run Through the Jungle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbI0cMyyw_M)- Creedence Clearwater Revival ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/8 "2019-04-10T16:34:46Z")
Oh, and Alicia Keys’ hit song _Girl on fire_? Nowhere on The Hunger Games movie franchise (2012 - 2015) Sort of infuriating. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/9 "2019-04-10T21:17:52Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > A lot of critics pointed out when _an American Werewolf in London_ was released that, among the many pop songs on its soundtrack, there was the conspicuous absence of Warren Zevon’s _Werewolves of London_. It came out in 1978, three years before the film. That’s Warren’s fault for not putting the word “moon” in the title, which is the joke underpinning the music selections for that movie. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Bredin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@John\_Bredin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Bredin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-wouldve-been-perfect-in-a-show-movie/832062/10 "2019-04-11T14:45:45Z")
Pink’s [Just Like Fire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Nrv5teMc9Y) was used in “Alice Through the Looking Glass” but IMHO should’ve been used in “Now You See Me 2” which was in theaters at the same time.